FaffCon 4
Ventura, CA
March 23-25, 2012
Gallery
Take a trip down memory lane in the FaffCon 4 Gallery!
Participants:
| Roger Baker Asheville, NC Bobbin Beam Lori Berman Lisa Biggs Peter Bishop Tom Bromhead Tanya Buchanan Kelley Buttrick Sean Caldwell Catherine Campion Marc Cashman Colleen Colin Courtney Colin Mike Coon Dave Courvoisier Matt Cowlrick Steve Cunningham Andrew Curtis Chuck Davis Rebecca Davis Liz de Nesnera Tom Dheere Dustin Ebaugh Robin Eller Dave Elvin melissa eXelberth Amanda Fellows Fred Filbrich |
Dan Friedman Arden, NC Rachel Fulginiti Lori Furth Larissa Gallagher Johnny George Nancy German J S Gilbert David Goldberg Lee Gordon Juliette Gray CC Heim Heather Henderson Roxanne Hernandez Coyne Victor Hertz Jeff Hixon Lynne Houle Jane Ingalls Debbie Irwin Debbie Jackson Linda Joy Mara Junot Randye Kaye Tim Keenan Brian Scott Kelly Erica Kelly Dwight Kuhlman Karen Lehman Erin Lehn Floresca |
Katie Leigh Torrance, ca Daniel Lenard Dale Leopold Diane Maggipinto Martha Mayakis Fran McClellan Lauren McCullough William Mehner Chris Mezzolesta Bruce Miles Scott Nilsen Perry Norton Rich Owen Peter O’Connell Jay Patrick Jamee Perkins Carolyn Peterson Jenifer Platt Talmadge Ragan Rick Riley Michael Robles Kaitlyn Robrock Kyna Rose Mercedes Rose Christian Rosselli Ashley Russo Steve Savanyu Bernard Schaer |
Monk Schane-Lydon Canaan, NY Jeff Simpson Seattle, Washington Jennifer Sims Amy Snively Corey Snow Bob Souer Karen Souer Eric Souer Graeme Spicer Dave Spiker Natalie Stanfield Thomas Kitzie Stern Amy Taylor Christian Taylor Connie Terwilliger Trish The Dish Pam Tierney Doug Turkel Katherin Vasilopoulos Adam Verner Leslie Wadsworth Byron Wagner Janet Walton Dave White George Whittam Cliff Zellman |
Charity:
Our charity was the Actors for Autism and we raised $3310!
Sponsors:
Our Presenting Sponsor
Voicebank.net is the primary casting and project management tool used by more than 1600 top ad agencies, TV and film studios, animation houses, producers, and casting directors around the world, connecting professional voice actors with the people who hire them since 1998.
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Voiceregistry is a service that provides actors at all career stages with reliable industry information, access to feedback from influential industry insiders, and, when ready, with opportunities to seek representation (or additional representation).
Our Sustaining Sponsor
Bob Souer, the second nicest guy in voiceover, is a professional storyteller who you’ve heard on hundreds of national television and radio programs, and thousands of commercials on networks in the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. His narrations have trained medical students, delivery truck loaders, and just about everyone in-between and he’d be delighted to help tell your story.
Key Supporting Sponsors
Edge Studio has been helping voice-over artists advance their careers since 1988 with training, demo production, workshops, plus an ever-expanding collection of free industry information and resources. Their team of top-notch coaches are also top-notch performers, with specialists in all voice over genres so you can get the specific training and advice you need to find your niche and reach your potential.
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Mara Junot is a seasoned pro voice-over specialist with over a decade of experience and a client list that includes AT&T, Microsoft, & Nintendo. Mara’s three-dimensional sound promotes companies, services, and entrepreneurs around the globe, bringing their words to life with color and direct relatability.
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Established in 1962, Audio-Technica is devoted to the design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of problem-solving audio equipment, including state-of-the art, high-performance microphones for stage and studio.
Supporting Sponsors
BSW, one of the world’s premiere broadcast equipment suppliers, is uniquely qualified to offer thousands of products at very competitive prices. Their sales professionals have decades of real-world broadcast and studio engineering experience to offer expert help with your equipment purchase.
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Dave Courvoisier’s rich, malleable baritone is even, conversational, and consistent; possessing the highly sought-after qualities that authentic Midwesterners are known for. Adept at discerning the author’s intent, Dave provides commercial voices, character voices, and narrations for projects or presentations that require vocal excellence. When Dave’s not in his voice over studio, he can be seen anchoring the news on CBS affiliate KLAS-TV Channel 8 News Now, Las Vegas, NV.
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GA Voiceovers – Andy Curtis has turned a passion for voiceovers into GA Voiceovers with the help of well-known voiceover artist and mentor, Juliet Jordan at The Voice Business’. Working from a range of local studios including his own digital studio at Wahroonga on Sydney’s North Shore, Andy and GA Voiceovers bring you the best of technical production services and great voiceover reads, character voices and book narrations – with friendly, prompt and professional service you won’t get from the bigger production houses.
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Rich Owen’s melodious storyteller voice gives a satin-smooth finish to voice over projects. His warm, sincere delivery lends honesty and integrity to the message. Versatile and easily directed, quick in project completion for commercials, presentations, narrations, and deep and intense promos and trailers, it’s easy to see why his client’s consider Rich “The voice you can bank on”!
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A dog, a hot tub, and a roughly 800 square foot studio/office with killer views of the Bay Area are the tools J.S. Gilbert uses to combine his passions and experiences for clients large and small, worldwide. Perhaps best known as a professional voice talent, he’s also an avid writer and has served as creative director for an ad agency, as an audio/video producer, and has worked in as many crew positions as one would typically find in a professional sound or video production.
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Chances are you’ve heard Bobbin Beam on a voice-over somewhere. Bobbin Beam has been making a living from behind the microphone since she was eighteen. She’s been heard around the world on radio and television commercials, narrations, audio books, e-Learning, documentaries, and TV promos… that warm, honest, caring professional, wise, and ever-spontaneous friend. When not recording in her home-based ISDN studio, she is an avid reader, learner, and enjoys spending time with family and friends.
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Liz DeNesnera is a native speaker of both English and French, so she easily records in both languages for her clients! Whether it’s a soothing voice for a telephone/on hold messaging system, a professional voiceover for a corporate video, or an upbeat sound for a radio or TV spot, her neutral accent in either language is perfect for scripts targeting the French Canadian, American and European markets.
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From her fully equipped studio, Moe Egan has done voice over work on five continents. Her professional demeanor, quick turn around and quality work keep Fortune 500 clients and start-ups alike happy and coming back for more. 85% of her business is repeat clients and referrals. Find out why Moe Egan will become the voice in your head.
Contributing Sponsors
 lynda.com provides online courses in technology and software training to help you learn critical skills. They create and deliver an exceptional training and learning experience for their members. They provide free access & previews to hundreds of tutorials in their training video library. lynda.com believes in life-long learning, that education is power, knowledge creates opportunity and technology should be accessible to everyone. |
 For studios or independent narrators who need to produce hundreds or thousands of audio files for eLearning, video games, or telephony, Word2WAV is an automated recording application that makes it possible to automate any multi-file scripted recording session saving countless hours of tedious file splitting and naming (which inevitably entail naming errors and loss of time in successive rounds of Quality Assurance). You can even download a fully functional trial version on the website to see if Word2Wav is for you! |
 Voiceover is what’s happening now, today, the flavuh du jour. Diane has a range and resonance that is definitely different than the average female voice talent. She can be edgy, authoritative, quirky, completely natural, or totally over-the-top. She is highly directable, with years of experience in most types of voice projects. Diane has amassed national credits and regional and local repeat clients. With some folks knocking from across the pond, and possibilities all over the world, she’s smart, savvy and has a lot of direct experience in media, so … she gets it. |
 The 5 Star Voice Acting Meet Up Group since 2007. The Dallas Voice Acting Meet up is a dynamic group that is passionate about voice acting, production and education. With well over 500 members and counting, The DVA Meet Up is now offering an excellent selection of events that covers the gamut of the industry. Pick and choose your areas of interest. Get in at the ground floor. Need some polishing? Ready to record? If you’re in the Dallas area please feel free to join us. |
 Corey “Vox Man” Snow is a voice artist with a rich, warm and natural style. From friendly to fatherly, from commanding to comedic, he has the voice for your project. Corey is professional, excels at taking direction, and wants to be your voice. |
 Published in 2010, Sound Advice is a first of its kind in the industry. Written by audio engineer and voiceover talent, Dan Friedman, the book covers audio engineering and studio session etiquette specifically for voiceover talent. Dan made complex recoding and audio concepts easy to understand. More of his advice can be found on his blog SOUND4VO.com. |
 Voiceoveressentials.com is voice actor Harlan Hogan’s web site with all the essential products a voice over actor needs to be successful. Products include: The Porta-Booth Pro – Your Recording Studio At Home and on the Road, MXL VO: 1-A Signature Series microphone, and Harlan Hogan merchandise. |
 Melissa is a bilingual talent who works from her ISDN equipped studio to bring it all together in a sound that is warm, textured, multi-layered, expressive, intelligent, & intense for clients all over the world voicing commercials, promos, animation, imaging, audiobooks and more in both her native English and fluent Spanish. Grit to glitter, corporate to caring, straightforward to downright scary, Melissa has it. She brings credibility to information based programming and narration, and attitude? If you need it… galore. |
 Source Elements gives you the tools you need to deliver professional quality audio over the Internet, with tools like Source Connect, Source Live and Source Talkback. |
 The website for people who talk. Professional and gear advice and camaraderie. Designed and Managed by DB Cooper. |
 VoiceOverXtra.com, the voice-over industry’s online news, education and resource center, your one-stop online resource for voiceover success. Operated by Voice-Over Xtra LLC, it’s a community of people involved with the voice-over industry, dedicated to sharing knowledge. Here you’ll find marketing and job news, calendars of industry events and training opportunities, directories of resources, how-to articles on voice acting, marketing, business and more. |
Many thanks to our FaffCon 4 Sponsors!
